jasper.sinclair wrote: ↑Sun May 17, 2026 6:31 pm
Nice work Jim Ablett! I have spent some time on this historic engine (Jim's port), it and have managed to add
full UCI support
and the ability to parse positions w/ FEN (both in Winboard and UCI)
You can also call create_book directly from the UCI command line.
I'm really not sure how strong this engine is...
Apparently; it was the first machine to achieve master-level play (2250 USCF rating in 1983).
This version however appears to be from 1973...I haven't tested it, but when I see it play it appears to be club level, 1800, 2000?
I'm really not sure how strong this engine is...
Apparently; it was the first machine to achieve master-level play (2250 USCF rating in 1983).
This version however appears to be from 1973...I haven't tested it, but when I see it play it appears to be club level, 1800, 2000?
I think that 2250 rating is for the dedicated hardware version not the earlier software version which my port is. I think engine is around 1500/1600 at current chess engine ELO rating levels. My port of Kaissa has a strength around 2250 ELO.
in my engine competition Chess VI has currently an ELO of 1807 (73 games). Kaissa has ELO 2112 (with 267 games).
I'm running this competition with 59 engines, playing blitz 2+0. I calibrated ELO by having Stockfish 17.1 (1CPU) pinned at 3780, which was its rating in CCRL when I started this.
